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When I was a little kid..I remember I had this Mathematics teacher of mine…whenever she used to write on the board…I couldn’t help but notice the deformity of her right hand…they were red…kind of swollen and..slant…tilt…I don’t know how to put it…but they were unusual and obviously I could never gather courage to ask her about it…

When I grew up…I realized and understood what her problem was…she was suffering from gout…

This problem today has become a very common phenomenon…

I’ll give you a brief account of the disease…

Traditionally it was called the “disease of kings” because it long has been associated incorrectly with gorging on a lot on delicacies and exotic wines…which eventually led to this disease…and also that the treatment for this disease was way too expensive back then that only the elite class could afford it…But also as a fact…anyone can be affected and also the risk factors are vary vastly…

But now…things…equipment and methods of treatment have changed for the better and hence it can be said for the record that…it is possible to treat gout and reduce its attacks by avoiding the food that triggers it…

It is an incapacitating disease…It is painful and potentially disabling form of arthritis that has been recognized since ancient times…Initial symptoms usually consist of intense episodes of painful swelling in single joints…most often in the feet (especially the big toe)…Treatments are available to control most cases of gout…but the tough part of this disease is its diagnosis and also the treatment is a subjective issue…as in different ones suffering need different kind of attention and treatment…

Common Symptoms Being…

Treatment options exist…but therapy should be tailored for each individual…

Here’s a quick recipe for you…try it and see the visible and sensuous difference…Make an ash by putting fire to the “Indian Reed – Mace” leaves and mix this ash with sesame seed oil…Applying of this solution on gout effected area helps give relief and also helps to cure gout…

What beautiful tradition it is…to name a newborn…Everyone in this world has an identity…a name…can’t think of the unfortunate ones who don’t…No matter one gets a name from his parents or the world…But the idea is…that whenever the person reaches sight…the name of him/her instantly reaches the lift…The name…defines the person…his being…his identity…

Same thing applies for anything…Like the name ‘Rose’ is synonymous to beauty…love…fragrance…

The name ‘Mace’ has designated itself to…as an essential oil…with benefits you cant count on fingers…

Here’s providing you with some key information…

Latin name – Myristica Fragrans

All possible names –

Nutmeg

Rou Dou Kou

Mace

Muscdier

Magic

Muskatbaum

Noz moscada

Nuez moscada

Nux moschata

This Mace tree prefers or I should say is best grown in rich volcanic soils….It grows well in hot and humid climatic conditions of the tropical regions….These plants are cultivated by sowing the seeds in nursery beds for about six months after which…they are transplanted…Mace trees generally take 5 years for flowering….The sex of the plant is identified by its flowering…While male plants are thinned out…the critical fact is that the ratio of male plant is to female plant is 1:10…The tree attains full maturity only after 15 years and then…starts bearing fruits…It continues for about 50 years…The nucleus being the wrinkled nutmeg…The fleshy…irregular covering…scarlet when fresh and drying…yellow and brittle…is the mace…The essential oil is made by steam (or water) distillation of the dried orange-brown aril or husk…

A normal mature tree can produce up to 2,000 nutmegs per year…The fruits are harvested and the mace and the nutmeg are separated…The mace oil contains volatile oils-

Butyric acid

Terpineol

Alpha-pinene

Myristicin

Geraniol

Safrole

Beta-pinene

Formic acid

Linalool

Alpha-terpinene

Elincin

Beta-terpinene

Sapol

Pinene

Camphene

Dipentene

Mace is an arillus a thin leathery tissue between the stone and the pulp…it is bright red to purple when harvested…but after drying changes to amber…

You know there is this Indian Goddess which has multiple hands…and the Hindus believe that the Goddess does multiple chores with all her hands…and keeps all their worries…tensions and problems at bay with each hand…and she is hence worshipped by them…

I was awestruck to read about this Goddess of Hindu mythology…and I know it is bizarre enough…but I thought what if God too really created something which would help us deal with almost all our problems…wouldn’t it be just great??

That is exactly when I got my answer…Mace essential oil…I know the comparison is rather bizarre…but think about it for yourself…

This Mace oil has a nutty…spicy and soft aroma and is basically obtained through steam distillation from the dried seed of the myristica fragrans nutmeg tree species….Nutmeg oil is used in

Aromatherapy…

Ointments…

Fragrances…

Perfumes…

Soaps…

Candles…

Dental products…

Hair care products…

If you search for its medicinal background…you will be surprised to know…how prolific this little plant is!

You can intake it…consume it…because as a matter of fact…Drinking nutmeg tea may also provide relief from kidney and stomach cramps and diarrhoea…Not only this…It also aids digestion and is used as a home remedy for flatulence….Also Gargling using nutmeg tea may help treat bad breath….Another way to take it internally is to add a drop of nutmeg oil to a glass of milk or soya juice…

When used topically…nutmeg oil may provide relief from joint inflammation and muscle pains such as arthritis and rheumatism because of its anti-inflammatory properties…

Applying a dab of nutmeg oil on a sore tooth or gum may numb the pain while you wait to see your dentist…

And also as a secret this Nutmeg essential oil is also used as an aphrodisiac…It is used as a remedy to treat impotence and frigidity and may also support the reproductive system…In certain cultures…nutmeg is used to support contractions during childbirth…

Always use nutmeg essential oil in moderation as a high dosage is known to provide a toxic and hallucinogenic effect….you know hallucination and all…This is actually due to the presence of myristicin in the oil….which does the wonders..

Mace oil has the scent of freshly grated nutmeg…It is believed to have analgesic properties and may be useful in a massage oil for aches and pains…It is also thought to be helpful in combating mental fatigue…Mace can be used for flatulent

Dyspepsia

Nausea

Diarrhoea

Dysentery

Rheumatism

This is also a known fact that the expressed oil is sometimes used externally as a gentle stimulant…and it was once an ingredient of the Emplastrum picis….Mace is used for flatulence and to correct the nausea arising from other drugs…also to allay nausea and vomiting…Also used as a flavouring agent in pharmaceuticals…especially analgesic and tonic preparations ( Like I’ve already mentioned before)…Mace oil are used in

Soaps

Lotions

Detergents

Cosmetics

Perfumes

Mace oleoresin is used in colognes and perfumes…especially men’s fragrances…Both oils and oleoresin are used in most major food categories…including alcoholic and soft drinks…

Mace oil can rather is also be used in soap making ingredients…lotions…massage oils…diffusers…potpourri…scent…air fresheners…body fragrance…perfume oils…aromatherapy products…bath oils…towel scenting…spa’s…incense…light rings…laundry…facial steams…hair treatments and lots and lots more!

And now for your doubt…Piles…the real ones are those that are present with painless BLEEDING due to swelling up of blood vessels in the anal canal…you know there might be blood in your stool…you can see it when you excrete…it might be painless at the time when you do…but it can be painful to see that red liquid in the faeces..

Mace essential Oil To Rescue

Heard of Mace oil or Nutmeg or Mystica Fragrans or Jaiphal?

Well…I would say it is time for you to say goodbye to those bitter tablets…go the natural way…the way our great grand parents did…

The most important quality in the use of Mace…as a small dose it does not produce any side effects….when you use it for a problem like piles…Effects of Mace include a narcotic effect when taken in large doses….so be a little careful while handling…Use it in optimum amounts…

Mace is

Aromatic

Stimulant

sleep inducing

carminative

intoxicating

digestive tonic

an aphrodisiac

A relief from piles

Islamic scholars from historical times described Mace as stimulating…intoxicating…digestive tonic and as an aphrodisiac…Like I just mentioned…. Dr. Paracelsus Loni cerus and Mathiolus in their research on Mace described it as a gastric tonic..and a natural and herbal medicine for piles…

It encourages appetite and averts constipation…fights gallstones and is also a tonic for the reproductive system…while regulating scanty periods…relieving frigidity and impotence…It can aid births by strengthening contractions…and relieve from the pain of piles…

Mace essential oil is a very potent combination of wonderful compounds that elevate the goodness of the oil, notches higher. The oil is highly antiseptic in nature and is often recommended for preparing healthy and healing recipes.

For years, both spices were the monopoly of first the Portuguese and then the Dutch, until Pierre Poivre smuggled some young trees from the Spice Islands. When the Moluccas were part of the British Empire, trees were transplanted to the West Indies, where they thrived.

In the eighteenth century, nutmeg and mace were included in French codices and in the nineteenth century, Pulligny wrote a book of876 pages entirely devoted to the nutmeg tree and its spices.

Nutmeg oil is steam-distilled from nuts crushed to a butter; oil from the islands is re-distilled in France to improve the quality. Mace is steam-distilled from the arils. Both oils are similar, very pale yellow and very fluid. Nutmeg smells spicy, pleasant and hot, mace very strongly spicy. Both oils change as they become old, turning dark brown and smelling disagreeable, acidic and turpentine-like – do not buy or use if like this.

Mace essential oil is one wonderful essential oil that deals with quite a lot many internal and external problems of the human body very effectively. The oil is absolutely pure and that can be owed to the fact that the souce of the oil is strong and pure.

The fruits, smooth and yellow, resemble a pear grooved by a longitudinal furrow and containing a single erect seed about 1 1/4 inches long. The nucleus being the wrinkled nutmeg. The fleshy, irregular covering, scarlet when fresh and drying, yellow and brittle, is the mace. The essential oil is made by steam (or water) distillation of the dried orange-brown aril or husk.

Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) has been used for centuries, particularly as a remedy for kidney and digestive problems; nutmeg oil is obtained from an evergreen tree of the Myristicaeae plant family. The tree grows up to sixty five feet in height with small, yellow flowers and fruit, shaped like a small peach; the bark of the tree is smooth and gray-brown in color. It is native to the Molucca Islands and cultivated in the West Indies, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

Nutmeg was a valuable spice for trading; both the British and the French smuggled nutmeg seeds in the eighteenth century. By the nineteenth century, ground nutmeg was being used in many English recipes; it became a popular addition to Christmas eggnog in the United States.

Fed up of using those inhalers…fighting asthma with the help of those became tough for my sister…she started feeling dick…like a patient…she wanted to go the natural way…our granny wasn’t there to guide us through the best natural ways to fight asthma…so she did this little survey and most of the people suggested to her that Mace oil was the best natural cure to asthma…

It is nothing that happened recently…In fact Mace has always been considered to be a useful medicine in a number of Asian societies…Among the Arabs…the sheiks…it has been used to treat digestive problems and also been valued as an aphrodisiac…the Indians used it to combat asthma and heart complaints and still use it as a sedative… Heard of Nicholas Culpeper? Yes I mean the same the famous English herbalist…attributes to nutmeg…Mace the capacity to induce sound sleep and quiet smooth breathing…

William Salmon…his counterpart…on the other hand…said that the oil of mace or nutmegs…if applied on the right places…can induce sexual passion (Hence…echoing the Arabs’ use of its aphrodisiac qualities)….

The use of Mace as a magical medicine continued far into the twentieth century in England….The belief that carrying Mace in the pocket could cure various complaints has been recorded from various parts of the country…Also in Yorkshire it was considered as the best way to relieve rheumatic pain…in Lincolnshire it was said to cure backache and in Devon it was eaten to clear up boils…Elsewhere it was used by gardeners as a prophylactic measure against the occupational hazard of backache….As late as 1966 a Hampshire coalman who suffered from lumbago was told to carry Mace…and when he did so he swore he never suffered from it again…This oil was also believed to be lucky in gambling….Now thats some funny history of it…A newspaper article from the mid-1960s reported that an individual sprinkled nutmeg powder on their football pools coupon and…on the advice of a gypsy…left it for twenty-four hours before posting it…

Either limitless agony or boundless ecstasy can make you an insomniac…I have been through both…and became an absolute night’s child…

It’s true I’m not entirely blameless, I’ve conformed to the conventional tea-coffee culture we live in, and have caffeine nearly every day …I can’t remember my sleep ever being continuous throughout the night and my caffeine intake seems to go up and up…

That’s when an aunt told me to resort to natural remedies…the best I found was Mace essential oil…

Mace is a potent sleep promoter…though kindly take my suggestion and do not exceed a teaspoon of it…

You know these insomnia and sleeping disorders which affect many people mainly because of stress…anxiety…depression…fear and natural aging…( Like I mentioned before)…Few other nervous problems can also be the root cause for such sleeping troubles….Sleeping disorders are not dangerous if they are checked in the initial stages…There are certain essential oils that can help you in supporting sleeping problems…

Mace oil acts as a good sedative…stimulant and is hypnotic in nature….The Flavonoids and vitamin-B complex present in this activate the secretion of certain enzymes and hormones which are calming and hypnotic in nature…These effects induce good sleep….This oil has a calming effect and relaxes the mind and body…It soothes painful muscles and calms down the mind and senses…Mace oil is used for treating insomnia and other sleeping disorders for its relaxing and calming properties…

And even the problems related to blood and nervous system are cured with the help of Mace essential oil…With its holistic fragrance it can calm down the nerves…This helps in curing severe headaches…migraine attacks…depression…anxiety…stress and tension…It helps cure insomnia and other sleeping disorders…Mace essential oil also helps in enhancing blood circulation and regulating hypertension and other blood disorders…It is a natural…non-toxic…non-irritant…calming and relaxing oil…It induces good sleep and also treats insomnia effectively….

Does anyone of you have the slightest of idea as to what all we are flushed with on this earth?

Frankly even I was amongst the ones who used to watch movies like ‘Anaconda’ and maybe ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and even Discovery channel and kept wondering of the kind of vegetation that grew on earth thousands of years ago…the magical herbs it bore that would cure today’s all incurable chronic fatal diseases…like cancer…just to name a few…I have always dreaded the disease..Anyway…

What I was trying to explain is that…years from those times…I now realize that those weren’t just movies…but rather a glimpse of the unseen…something that did exist…

Mace essential oil…Now getting to the point…You know this Mace Essential Oil has a long-long history of medical use…It was used to combat digestive issues and fevers…Just a harmless growing herb…that has been hidden from the human eye for many years…

Okay…these are some of its key information…that you should know about the this oil..before I go down to the nitty-gritty of it…

Largest Producing Countries of it are Sri Lanka…Indonesia and West Indies

This oil has been traditionally used as a flavouring agent for baked goods and pharmaceuticals…Also used in perfumery as an addition to men’s fragrances…

It is by nature-

Anti rheumatic

Antispasmodic

Analgesic

Antioxidant

Stimulant

Tonic

Aphrodisiac

Carminative

Choloagogue

Laxative

Be it…Arthritis…colds…constipation…cough…exhaustion…fever… flatulence…halitosis…loss of appetite…muscle fatigue…nausea…slow circulation….Added to a blend…mace oil is used as a fixative….Its analgesic properties may be used topically for muscle fatigue and arthritis….

As for the way it looks…Mace is basically dried…crimson-coloured….lacy seed covering (that is what is called aril) removed from the nutmeg…which is enclosed in a peach-like fruit….It comes from the Moluccas….

The term spice is used to refer to plant parts which serve to improve the odour and flavour of foods…They contain essential oils and other ingredients which have a strong seasoning action…

Spices are processed…cleaned…graded and carefully packaged for overseas dispatch in the countries where they are cultivated…They are dried to preserve them for transport and storage…In consumer countries…they are delivered to spice mills…where they are cleaned and graded again…ready for sale in ungrounded or ground form…